The Sun. — London, England, 1818-04-14 00:00:00

lll•aaofta . • - - • PARLIAMENTARY CONVERSATION. The following is an account of a Conversation which is said to have pissed in the House of Com rnons last night, after the Gallery was cleared for a Division, and during the interval before the Divi sion actually took place. It appears in The Morning Chronicle of this day, and must, of course, lie been communicated to that Payer by some Member, or Members, who are of the same poli tical pt iodides which that rape: is always advocat ittg. Hence, though we deem it our duty to insert it for the information of our Readers, yet they will doubtless view it with cautions distrust, as tinged by the colouring of party and political !Wiley()!cure :-- The lion. Mr So:weirs COCKS expressed his extreme anxiety to explain the reason why he did not vote for the lioikouraWe Member's Brougham) Amendments. Viewing it as pledg ing the [louse in the principle of ecomony, he did not object to it on that ground. On the contra' when the proposed allowatice came to be dis cuSsed, he should spew by his vote that he was us warm a friend to the pi inciple as any man ; but lie was averse to depatting trout the usual mode of or.,yeetiinv, in inch Addrssses, which might be liable to tnis-coiisteuelion. " Mr. linouGnim said he was desirous of re moving the false impression under which the lion. Gent. appeared to lab•;or when he thought that it signified nothing to the street ssful opposi ion of the proposed measure, whether the vote was given in this or in a future singe. lie (Mr. 11.) pressed i;is Amendment for the vernmrpose of iletetriog Ministers, in the eatliest possible stage, from going on with such a measure ; and he was confident that the Amendment, if carried, would Lave the most salutary consequences, as well to. interes , s of the Coun•ry as to the stability of the Government, by putting an end at once to a proposition fraught with the very worst conse quences to both. Mr. Lru KICK could not avoid declaring the course which he felt himself bound to adopt Pisapproving of the proposition made at the Mecing at Lord Liverpool's, lie should de cidedly oppose it ; and, though be wished the Amendment hail not been moved, still lie felt lie Lad no choice ; bn. must give it also his e'opport in the terms in which it was couched. Mr. PLUNKETT wished that his Hon. Friend would consent to withdraw the Amendment, lie ntirely concurred in opinion with him, and wl-en the question was br - night forward, he should stre imously su ppprr l i la., to the utmost of his power. lint he was apprehensive that it might wear an appearance vety foreign to his lion. Friend's in tentions, if the liOnse departed from the prece dents of former Addreses, by referring to the topic of economy, not to he found in the Iles.-age, and thereby seeming to insinuate that the Crown bail improperly omitted that important considera tion. On the merits of the question he heartily agrer , l his Horn. Friend. " Sir .1 NEWrOiZT expressed hi, ree,ret at be ing obliged to differ so widely from his Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Plunkett) in his-view of the Amendment, which he regarded as absolutely necessary, after what hal passed nit bOth It. was a great mistake in his Right llonontable Friend to suppose that the Amendment could re fer to any thing but the conduct of Ministers The Message was their act, and if the omission was censured by the Amendment, the censure fell neon the constitutional advisers of the Crown alone. " Lord LASCELLFS was one of those present at the Meeting at Lord Livet pool's, and he there felt that he could not agree to the proposition of Ministers. lie was prepared to oppose it by his vote when it came forward ; but he-declined snp porting the Amendment, or voting in .the present stage. • " Sir C. MoNcK strongly supported the Amend ment, (lid Mt. CALCRAFT and Mr. TIERNEY, .upon the ground of Loid Castlereagh's refusal to inform the House what was intended, and the fact which had come out of so many Members that mornitp4 having learnt what the measure was, and immediately' declared that they could not agree to it. " Mr. LITTr,FTON (.9LATordshire) said, he' should not easily be suspected of opposing Go vernment, with whom he so generally acted. Brit he had been one of the Meeting at Lord Liver pool's, and had foand a great many others, like himself, friends to the measnres of Adtoinistra • lion, but who could not agree to the proposition made by Loid Liverpool. flowerer he shotild reserveltimselt for the after stage of the question. " Mr. ABEEtcR. , MBY considered that they who opposed the Amendment _quite mistook the roes - lion, the duty of the Manse was to act as an in termediate body between the People . .and the Crown, .attending to the in'erests of both. His Right Honourable Friend (Mr. Plunkett) could not surely so far forget its functions, and indeed its whole forms of proceedin, as to regard any thing which it did relative to a Message or Ad dress, as applicable to the executive branch of the. Government, or to any persons other titan the Ministers of the Crown. After the avowals of opinion on all sides respecting the expected proposition, it would be a deception not to add the declaration coni.tined in the Amendment. " Mr. C. W. ‘VYNNE wished the Amendment to be withdrawn., for fear of impeding the future . opposition to the proposed vote—in which opposi tion he should certainly concur ;—but the Amend ment he thought contrary to the usual forms of their proceedings. " Mr. W. COORTENAY deemed it necessary to declare at once in the earliest stage, his opposi tion to the measure. He should vote for. the Amendment with this view—he approved of it be cause it went to declare the opinion of the House, and to prevent the measure, deprecated on almost all hands, from being proposed. It had his un qualified assent. " Sir T. AcLAND was against the Amendment, though he strougly supported the principle of it, and should sbew this by his vote When the mea sure was proposed. " Mr. Gooch had been at Lord Liverpool's, and disapproved of the proposition. ",Mr. METun EN Warmly supported the Amend ment ; as did also General WAI,I3OLE, who asked;, whether if sitch. an. expression of: tegard to the burtliens of. the. country hail been in the original . Address, Gentlemen would Wye' voted for leasing them out ? _ _ " Sir W. CURTIS said lie had not been at Lord Liverpool's, though he had on occasions of a si milar kind, and had expressed his mind freely.—. It he had been ilieve, he should to-day have-op posed the proposition decidedly, and so he should when it came on—but be would not vote now for the Amendment. " Sir S. RomILLY begged the House, be fore Voting, to recollect that the whole of the Members to whom the private and unconsti tlpional disclosure had been made in the morning, and who alone knew its noure, had, from all that tow appeared, disapproved of it—anti (tad oue after another informed the House of its being of a kind impossible to he supported by them who usually v6ted uith Ministers, \Vas it too notch in these circumstances to record the warning of the Eloise to Ministers in the Address, and-to let it be known that there existed Bete such an opi nion.% The origbial Address would only tend to midrad any one who read it as to the sentiments ,its the House, and the reception which the prop°- , sit ion was likely to meet "with. THLATRICAL REGISTLR. Per Armed Lust Night. - Tr. EATRE Ttovm., DrturrY-LANE.—King Richard the Thitd • Duke of Gloucester, Mr. Kean ; Lady Anne, Miss Boyce. After which, The Sleeping DrauOit. LI ;writ r, ROVA 1., COVENT-G.l RDE.N.---VCIliCe Preserved: Pierre, Mr. Young ; Beividert; Miss O'Neill. After which (first time), Who's My Father ? '1 ILS Attntvci , -2 Dublin, 2 Waterford, 2 France. Dug-2 Wa terford, I Guernsey and Jersey, I Ilu!land, 1. Hausburgh, I Flanders. PRICE 0 STOCKS THi9 UAY AT r Rank Stack 3 per Cant. 3 per Cent,. C0nt....794i 80/ 4 ptr Cents. •• • • 97 ii - 4i 5 per Cent. N. Ann. 10700 1081 108 Bank Lou; Atm.. 20 7-It ths % EINE. tie India Stock.. 238 2371 trido 9ss pr. Sour Ii Sea Stock 89 Ex. Rills, 2d,..... 19s. 20s. pr. Ditto, 24d. .. 19s. 225. pr. Coos. Cr.. May,.. 80t 8U SI 80111 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 'l'o-MORROW. Burning, 43 minutes after 9. Evening, 8 minutes after 10. THE SUN. 01.1:31 QUIS DICERE I.II.SUM AUDEAT ? LONDON, ' TUESIMY, APRIL 14, 1818. tVe received this morninglbree day's Paris Papers to Saturday last inclo4l : ve. The Chamber . ot- Peers assembled on Thursday, and appointed two Special Committees fo examine and report upon (Lig Projets respecting the Bank of France and the Customs Duties. The nature or object' ‘ , l the Projet respecting the Bank has not yet been disclosed in the Jouroals. Wed nesday, Thursday, and Friday, the Chamber of Deputies were occupied in discussing some of the articles of the Budget. This prolonged and tedious discussion chiefly relates to local questions, and is of no interest out of France. The further consideration of the subject was ad journed till Saturday. The trial of the persons charged with -the assassination of M. FIJALDES 1V as still proceeding. On the 3d instant Madame MANsoN seemed disposed to make further disclo sures against the prisoners, and made use of some mysterious words, but• she was taken ill in' the midst of her emotions, and the Court was ad- . jourmed till the next day, without the looked-for gratification of the public curiosity.—The follow- ing are extracts : " Pains, APRIL 9.—The Duke of Wellington himted yesterday with the Ptinces in the forest of St. Germain. " We learn from Lyons. that the merchants there appear disposed to take a considerable share in the loan about to be raised by Government. " APRIL 10.—The .Baron Moonier, President of the Mixed Commission of Liquidation, had yes terday a conference with the Duke of Wellington. The Duke de Fernand Nunez, the Spanish Arn bassador, had also a conference with his Grace. '' We 'learn from Bordeaux, d'Augouleme, Angers, Moulins, Digne, Macon, and Go), that the wheat and the vineyards present the fairest prospects of abundance. • . " APRIL 11.-The Duke of Wellington had a l ong conference yesterday with the Duke de Richelieu, President of the mixed Commission of Liquidat ion. 1' The King will go to St. Cloud about the middle of June, and remain there five weeks. " Yesterday the Duke de Richelieu on returning, from his conference with the Duke of Wellington, had an audience of his Majesty. " FIVE PER CENTS. " Wednesday .. G6 f. 80 c. " Thursday 6-1; 1. 90 e. " Friday " DEFERRED STOCK. " Wedneday.... , " Thursday • 79 . f. 30c. " Friday 79 1. 33 c, " VIENNA, MARCH 29.—1 t is not the, Grand Duke Nicholas, but the Grand Mike Aiichael, who is expected here. A credit of -200,000 ronbics lias been ()pelted in tile name at the Bankers, Arnstein and Eskels s. lie proceeds subserviently to Munich, and frwn thence to England. , MADRID, MARCH 26.—The sailing of the ex pedition for fit)toth America does not appear to , he neavat Wald.' Only ene Russian ship of OP line and one frigate are in a state fit to put to sea. The test must undergo repairs." The Party, within and without doors, have at tempted to raise a great clamour against Govern ment, for having called a mee•inpf, of Members of Parliament, which was held yesterby at Fife house. on the subject of the two Royal Treaties of Marriage announced last night... It is evident that no claudestine put pose was intended by Mi nisters on this occasion, as the persons who were requested to attend were high and independent characters; who, though attached to Government, were not servilely devoted to those by whotb it is ,adininistered ; and accordingly we find that several of those persons'ilissented from the measures propos ed by Miniqers, and avowed their dissent last night in the Hotrse of Commons. It has always - been customary for Ministers to call such meetings on particular occasions, and what occasion can be more important than that which relates to the succession and security of the House of Bruns wick on the British Throne But the Oppo sition themselves, on any occasion that they deem important to their - own interests, have generally held such meeting', for the purpose of thwarting the operations of Government ; and Why Minis. tcrs should not do the same, in order to deter mine on measures intimately connected with the security of the Throne, it is difficult to say. On the whole, Ministers deserve praiSe rather than censure for thus taking an opportunity of collect ing before-hand the sense of characters of known judgment, integrity, and independence, upon a subject essentially relating to the preservation of our happy Establislttnent in .Chtuch and State. WINDSOR, APRIL 13 -,--Last evening her MA JESTY had a select party at the Castle. This morning the Princess ELIZAERTH -and the Prince of IIESSE HOMBERG arrived at the Castle, front the Pluticts REGENT'S Cottage, on visit to her MAJESTY. Ina short time afterwards, Prince LEOPOLD arrived froth Clareruont, on a visit to the QUEEN. Yesterday the Dukes of Yoex and CLYMBPR. LAND visited the PRINCE REGENT at Carlton. The Earl of LIVERPOOL had an audience of the PEtscE REGENT yesterday. • Yesterday, at three o'clock, the Sheriffi of . London and Middlesex, accompanied by the City , noun the ritINCE REGENT at Carli -boil se, to take his Royal t - Uguness'S commands as to the time when he would be ple, , scd to receive the Address voted-by the Corporation of the City of. London, upon the mart iage of the Princess ELIZABETH and the Pt hice of • IlEsse IIomBEEG, when his Royal Highness was pleased to appoint VI iday, at four o'clock. Yesterday morning Baron De (iERNING and Baron DE KRANC let London fur the PRINCE REGENT'S Cottage, at Windsor, on a visit to the Prince of liessE 110MBERG and the Princess ELIZABETH. • On Sunday night Mr. FISHER, the King's Mess'enger, unexpectedly left town with dispatches for Berlin. - The Royal Yach't at Deptford is now per fect readiness to sail for the Continent, to bring Over the Duke of CAMBRIDGV, and his Royal . Bride, and is expected to drop down the River on Saturday. • The Royal George -yacht, at" Portsmouth, is ex pected to be ready for sea by the Ist of June.— Another bed-room is adding to her other splen didly-fitted apartments. The PrilNcE REGENT,-it is said, will make a visit to Plymouth, in this fine vessel, in the course of the summer. The Hon. CHARLES 'PAGET, it iSllfUltrStOnd, will resume the command. The Royal Sovereign yacht, at Dept ford, is also preparing for sea, under the command of Sir EnwArto ()WEN. - The Tottenhani convict-ship lies - in Barr.pool, while bete rudder is repairing. ikbottt dusk Wednesday evening, one of the convicts made his escape by switntning, .and landed, -almost in a state of nudity, in Mount Edgclunbe i'atk, where he was soon retaken. THE THEATRE —A whimsical farce was himnght. forward last night at Covent-Garden Theatre, under the title of " - my Faiher P" It is somewhat extravagant, but who ,expects ri g id probability in a farce, either iu plot or character :? LISTON performed a sort of iplicrons who fancies that his origin was greater than apparent and generally supposed. His name is Fitz-Cloddy. The acting of this ridiculous hero was peculiarly entertaining, and the characters were otherwise so well supported that the piece on the whole exerienced a very favourable recep tion. It is ascribed to Mr. MouTog, to whom the Public are indebted for.many dramatic works of merit and strong interest. Mr. ELLISTON has acceded to the wishes of the Drury-lane Management, and has consented ,to perform a certain number of n;ghts for the re mainder of the season. The Earl of FlFe, it is said, has presented Mr. KEAN witl► the identical Dirk which wus•worn by his Lordship's ancestor APDUFF, in the combat in which MACBETH, fell ; the weapon has been in the possession of his Lordship's family ever since that memorable day. It is so improbable that his Lordship should tave, parted with such a rcligne of antiquity, and such a family heir-loom of ho-, note, that we con give no credit to the story. . PRIVATE AND fitITIIENTrC PARIS, APRIL 6.—The Sitting of 60 Chamba of Deputies on Saturday the 4th inst. was a til° S stormy one. You have no doubt bad some s e 'r count of it, I will, therefore, pass over tht.lest material parts, as the speech of M. GANILE I I pf come to that of.M. BIGNON, tirhiah was o ne the most scandalous, and the most iMpudetit, ere( delivered at the Tribune. The Orator said litth about the object under consideration, the P.' trances, but dwelt much on the departure of 1 11 , Allied Troops, when invectives against the nisters rushed in torrents from his m outh, as if 3 • depended on them whether the Allied T r°°P., should leave France or not, as if even the ter of the Treaty were not .optional. For utY ° Wtl part, I am well convinced that the presence, °i the Allied'Troops on the French territory is o f no utility to Europe, and in no wav contributes.t°' the tranquillity of France ; nay, more a ctual ob.. servation has clearly demonstrated to me, Coa t thd i sight of these Troops tends to keep alive a of irritation in the mind of the Fl ench Nat ion ' : sentiment of humiliation which retards the reterl' of calm and quiet. But what right bad M. BiGt 4 l to pretend to decide upon a question which, al., Europe is called upon to discuss ? If the se ltti : meats of this man expressed those of the g rell mass of Frenchmen, would say that it wa s (lir . duty of 'Europe to league, cost what it `) against a : nation NV hich was such an enetnY - social order, and with which neither pea ce l' i ot lf truce"could,be made. But M. BIGNON gentrA' regaidcd, and even by persons of his own P r° for a matteois esprit, led away by the fury of (11° revOlut . jonary spirit : he is in fact a coonterPart. of the Marquis de CHAVVRLI 'N. lie has . dare d to " declare it'a crime in the Ministers not to v „ c , proposel'the repeal of the lacerwhich ctinderno! exile the assassins of the unfortunate Loots : XIV ': Ile is apparently in despair at not seeing at 1 : 15 . side, seared in the house, tile B \nuarckgs, t.)6 CARATS, the SIEYESES, and others of t he sa l class, who began by committing the greatest ° crimes, to clear the way for others. The Cb' tli : ber would not hear M. lliGsLos: without exP r c st t its horror of his principles, and contempt of talents 5 he was called to order almost unanimous: Is', and I may assure you %%rah tt'uth, that I glace not seen one Frenchnom who was not at II"' s°l° of time imognant and ashamed of the c"°" -t r M. BIGNON. It Lord STANLIOPE reads his sr e t' c ;; he will fild in it new materials for anothe r, against France. M. de Boxiseer succeeded M. Bicrgo st at t,tilhei Tribune. n.... ..•"-seeen and politiciaas scarcely be able to contain iheir In t " c h .e : when they read the opinions of this inc"P"' ' sician. lie brought back•gaiety into the As sen) :- bly, over which M. BtoNoN had sprepal a f el ' e la real crape ; indeed, what could the Chamb er th is better than laugh at the grave puerilit ies of a philosopher, who, speaking on the Budget' tine, to paint the public distress,• fixed it at the P o et liod when persons began to sell their c i t e clothes, and make economic al soup f or poor, and who, with the most risible gr3v"' I sofieP 4 . exclaimed against the payment of taxes and said they ought tp be taken in kited -- (h et the Author had in view a Pull Tax. an d the 0 0:- teirtion to get himself made a Receiver), 1011 what struck the Assembly more seriously ' vas digression on the Swiss Troops, which , l'e c°.erg.- eluded in these words : would to God tee g lire all as good Renehmen as these brave Allies: ;I li Assembly was very nearly calling him to or der ' y it had done M. BlGNotai but undoubted l y it cc' sidered that he had not a bad—heart, hut 01117 f silly brain, and that the weakness of hiskllglll%; might be admitted as an excuse fur lids sentitneritio hence it was only decided, that tile hostile p lir should not be printed in his speech. v I understand the Ministers were verY urtella ec alr tattle e ff ect that might be produced by tile sP .p. p or of -M. BIG N oS: :—they are like fresh-wa ter sal „ unaccustomed-to storms, and whom a stiff b r r t oel or a heavy cloud disconcerts and arl' als. , rid do not yet, seem to be fully aware that 5 "" ic e speeches are in the very nature of a R e prese nta t Government. it Our Ministers laugh at the ravings 0 - t " ' t pointed ambition, and the half treasona ble rat t " o t those pure Reformers, vt•ho forget to beg i P or i home; but the French Ministry is mu ch “° e o irritable. Time and experience '''ilL l form it, and it will cease:to be fig squibs. It would indeed he a very sing ular t °tile with such men as BiGtioN and- Cnatreretta' Chamber, if there were not from ti me to ► Ito. heard from the Tribune the most fur ious al ritito canb, sensate speech . cs. The French cannot understand the reap t/s t ' of Lord KINNAIIID. Ile a:irees that Tan ought to be arrested, but not at Paris-74 A l4 .6 ' r at 4 nur,ht to have been sent thick in_s.:fetY to'f 1 1